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Publishers’ Forum 2013

“The Forum’s organizer and Director of Klopotek, Helmut von Berg, gave a lively, charming closing German address, whose intimate, at times scolding tone demonstrated his close relationship to the leadership of the German publishing industry.” Read the full article published … Continue reading →

“Developed by Helmut von Berg and his colleagues at Klopotek, this has now clearly emerged as one of the leading places in Europe to talk about the future of what we are increasingly calling ‘networked publishing’.” (David Worlock) Read the … Continue reading →

Wolters Kluwer’s Christian Dirschl summarized the takeaways from the Jurion project, a feature-rich platform offering in the area of legal publishing. In a single platform, Jurion offers search, integrated social media, self-publishing support, sales, and integration into the local processes … Continue reading →

IIL, an international provider of learning solutions in the area of project management, is walking the semantic walk. IIL have truly taken user focus to heart, as the following quotes from Kim Sienkiewicz eloquently demonstrate: “The only time content is … Continue reading →

Graham Bell from EDItEUR presented an interesting overview of existing standards and some newer standards which offer solutions to emerging challenges. ISTC, for example, enables publishers to identify groups of products with the same textual content but otherwise with different … Continue reading →

“Publishers are in love with books, but business people are in love with data.” Ed Nawotka, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives, used his presentation to draw attention to differences of perspective between publishers – particularly in more traditionalist Europe … Continue reading →

The use of content has changed, as explained by Robin Mackay Miller and Philip Rowe from Pearson: “Now there’s the requirement to produce a ‘deck’ of content with interactive capabilities and access to a broad range of materials and platforms. – … Continue reading →

“APIs are conduits through which data flows.” Adam DuVander’s succinct definition of the API technology does not not immediately reveal the immense potential inherent in this tool, but his presentation went on to provide a wealth of interesting examples of … Continue reading →

Brian O’Leary feels strongly about changing publishing workflows. In his opinion, publishers need to migrate from thinking about products to instead planning for and offering services and solutions. In his presentation, he offered four “Content first” principles as a roadmap: … Continue reading →

Publishing is war? German with the best publishing industry in the world, will be attacked from US companies like amazon or google. The behaviour of those companies supports the long term target to enter and partly to destroy markets. Edward … Continue reading →

“I have the impression that the program which we organized for today really resonated with the Forum participants – which I’m very happy about. The three keynotes this morning provided a splendid start to a good, productive day. The content … Continue reading →

Christina Mussinelli provided a detailed overview of the Libri Italiani Accessibili project funded by the Italian Ministry for Culture. The goal of the project is to increase the accessibility of digital publications to people with visual impairments by creating a … Continue reading →

Tim Epstein thinks that publishers need to learn that migrating to the cloud is fundamentally about a paradigm shift to delivering a service, and that we shouldn’t focus so much on the technology behind cloud solutions (data encryption, data redundancy … Continue reading →

If you don’t have a business or information strategy then your big data remains just bytes. Big data is a springboard to innovation but it only helps when it becomes small data. To create a value you have to combine … Continue reading →

In Fionnuala Duggan’s experience, the most important characteristic of higher education is that it is ‘Bring-Your-Own-Device’. Publishers need a way to efficiently deliver their content into an extremely varied usage environment for users with needs that are in some ways … Continue reading →

Jake’s workshop leads us from single questions like “Land is a strategic asset. But how do you use it?” to a strategic discourse about “How you can use BIG DATA to leverage your business”? One key note is “The challenge … Continue reading →

For Dan Pollock, we’re facing an information overload – a tidal wave of information that users simply don’t have time to process. A doctor, for example, who wants to stay up to date on the latest treatments has to winnow … Continue reading →

According to Krishna Tewari, there are three kinds of data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured and the vast majority of the data in enterprises today (approximately 80%) is unstructured. What this means is that harnessing this data can bring huge … Continue reading →

Defining Big Data: “You have goals, and Big Data is the complex stuff that’s in between you and these goals.” (Jake Freivald, Information Builders) The result of analysing Big Data is: — small data. The challenge is finding the small data in … Continue reading →

“Our lives are much more collaborative than before.” David Worlock’s keynote insisted that publishers need to look at how we live and work today: collaboratively, in the network. Work is being fragmented, we are doing little pieces in a network, … Continue reading →

Regarding the presenation of Fionnuala Duggan: There is hope in education: If technologies are provided innovative but careful and meets the expectations of the students and makes learning more attractive….

Uli Klopotek, CEO Klopotek & Partner, opened the 10th Publishers’ Forum and established the major themes on the agenda for the next two days: – the evaluation of the risks of developing technologies – the use of such technologies to … Continue reading →

Big data to link with transaction data to reach more information about reader and customer. But also interaction with consumer to follow the recommendation they give each other. And vendors will become partner otherwise the industry will not handle the … Continue reading →

This is an invitation to participate in a survey, which is being conducted by the Department of Media Economics at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, Austria (www.fhstp.ac.at), in cooperation with the EU project “LOD2 – Creating Knowledge out … Continue reading →

Strategy development in publishing will gain a broader basis in 2013, as decision makers will be able to take advantage of a dual conference offer with increased quality and scope: Under the motto “from editorial to market“, the Publishers’ Forum … Continue reading →

Strategy development in publishing will gain a broader basis in 2013, as decision makers will be able to take advantage of a dual conference offer with increased quality and scope: Under the motto “from editorial to market“, the Publishers’ Forum … Continue reading →

An ambitious agenda is taking shape: find below a list of the topics and speakers of the Publishers’ Forum 2013. (speakers and presentation titles still subject to change). You can also downlad a PDF file of the agenda.

In this article, Helmut von Berg, Director Klopotek, provides an extended and more detailed version of his closing remarks of the 2011 Forum. Using practical examples and mind maps, he illustrates his vision of ›networked publishing‹, examines the impact of … Continue reading →

“I wanted to explore the idea that the writer of a classic novel and winner of the Nobel Prize can transform the concept of his novel into something understandable and comprehensible without using words.” In his article “Beyond the Book … Continue reading →